RightNow Complies With AOL Anti-Spam Standards (NewsFactor)

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Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam

Spammer Complies With CAN-SPAM, Claims
ISPs Should Not Filter His Spam 05/20/2004 07:05 PM
Ronnie Scelson is one of the shortlist of spammers who just seems to love publicity. While many spammers like to hide away, Scelson's always willing to talk. He testified before the Senate Commerce Committee today, claiming that he is now compl ying with CAN-SPAM, but threatened to ignore the law if not enough of his spam messages were getting through filters. He actually has the audacity to complain that now that CAN-SPAM is in effect, ISPs should be required to let his mail through. Maybe the filters are a little to thick around his head and the message isn't getting through to him: the reason his spam is filtered is because people don't want it.

Group Looks to Forge Anti-Spam Standards

Group Looks to Forge Anti-Spam Standards 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
A new anti-spam research group tackles what is becoming an increasingly problematic unsolicited e-mail issue.

IBM Debuts New Anti-Spam Tool
(NewsFactor)

IBM Debuts New Anti-Spam Tool
(NewsFactor) 03/24/2005 04:26 PM
NewsFactor - In a move to expand its Internet security footprint, IBM (NYSE: IBM) has introduced a new anti-spam application aimed at corporations. Called "FairUCE," (Fair use of Unsolicited Commercial Email), the application helps filter and block spam by using identity management technology at the network level to analyze the domain identity of an e-mail.

RightNow IPO: Room To Play (NewsFactor)

RightNow IPO: Room To Play (NewsFactor) 05/13/2004 03:39 PM
NewsFactor - The announcement of yet another initial public stock offering in the CRM industry -- RightNow Technologies -- is both exciting and nerve-wracking for software vendors.

Microsoft, Developer Combine Anti-Spam
Standards (Reuters)

Microsoft, Developer Combine Anti-Spam
Standards (Reuters) 05/25/2004 02:54 PM
Reuters - The backers of two anti-spam proposals said on Tuesday they would work together to provide a single standard that would make it easier for Internet providers to block unwanted junk e-mail.

Microsoft Not Trying To Hijack Anti-Spam
Spec (NewsFactor)

Microsoft Not Trying To Hijack Anti-Spam
Spec (NewsFactor) 09/15/2004 03:18 PM
NewsFactor - The Internet Engineering Task Force, an organization devoted to establishing standards for Internet architecture, has raised concerns about Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) Sender ID anti-spam technology as a technical standard.

Yahoo Releases Anti-Spam Technique For
Upcoming Standards Battle

Yahoo Releases Anti-Spam Technique For
Upcoming Standards Battle 05/18/2004 06:16 PM
One thing that you can guarantee in the technology world is that there will never be a shortage of standards battles. While AOL is supporting Sender Policy Framework (SPF) as their way of authenticating email senders, Microsoft is pushing their "caller ID" method of combating spoofed spam and Yahoo has been pushing ahead with their own DomainKeys proposal. Today, Yahoo is making some news by announcing that they're releasing the technology as a standard. A standard for whom? So far, it seems like it's just Yahoo. Are we going to reach a point where our mail servers are going to need to separately check DomainKeys, SPF, email Caller ID, some giant useless "do not spam" database, and twenty other anti-spam systems before they'll be able to forward mail? Is it really a "standard" if everyone has their own?

Microsoft Adopts IronPort Anti-Spam Tech
(NewsFactor)

Microsoft Adopts IronPort Anti-Spam Tech
(NewsFactor) 05/05/2004 02:02 PM
NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has adopted anti-spam whitelist technology designed to distinguish desired mass e-mailings from unwanted spam. The company will use software from IronPort Systems to combat spam on its MSN and Hotmail e-mail services.

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
Secure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™) automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms, Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam 09/04/2004 03:04 AM
Olive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Aren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal ground, they're moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent 11/16/2003 02:34 AM
An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for ...

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology 11/19/2003 03:54 AM
DoubleClick Nov 19 2003 3:21AM ET

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.

Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate...

Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Next Anti-Spyware Group Pushes for
Standards

Next Anti-Spyware Group Pushes for
Standards 06/05/2005 10:58 PM
The newly formed Anti-Spyware Coalition, run by the Center for Democracy and Technology, aims to develop definitions for "spyware" and "adware," and to advocate industry best practices.

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam?

Will the new anti-spam legislation cut
spam? 12/18/2003 02:16 AM
Now the CAN SPAM legislation has passed into law, will it actually cut spam?

Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates!

Spam vs. Anti-Spam: the war escalates! 06/22/2004 02:47 AM
Every time someone introduces a new anti-spam technique, some wily spammer devises a workaround. This myriad of actions and reactions is going to tie our e-mail system in knots. The only real solution to unsolicited mail is to eliminate the problem altogether by stopping spam at the source. To this end, the folks at ImagineNation have proposed an eMstamp solution and have set out to publicly answer the many questions that the proposal has raised. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]

Microsoft To Unveil Anti-Spyware Beta
(NewsFactor)

Microsoft To Unveil Anti-Spyware Beta
(NewsFactor) 01/05/2005 04:37 PM
NewsFactor - Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is likely to release a first iteration of its anti-spyware software Thursday, and make the tool available for beta testing.

SK Telecom Offers Cellular Anti-Virus
Service (NewsFactor)

SK Telecom Offers Cellular Anti-Virus
Service (NewsFactor) 06/21/2004 03:54 PM
NewsFactor - SK Telecom, South Korea's largest cell-phone operator, is looking for a competitive edge over its rivals by offering an antivirus service for cell phones and smartphones. With 75 percent of South Korea's population already subscribing to cell-phone services, the competition between the three main operators is intense.

Letter: Vendors Should Agree On
Spam-Reducing Standards (TechWeb)

Letter: Vendors Should Agree On
Spam-Reducing Standards (TechWeb) 04/10/2004 03:41 AM
TechWeb - Consultant Chip Burkitt calls on vendors to agree on standards for spam-blocking technology. He also provides a tip for configuring mail servers to reject messages from nonexistent domains.

"Anti-Bush ad contest submits Super Bowl
commercial: CBS Spokesman Doubts Spot
Will Pass Standards Review: "

"Anti-Bush ad contest submits Super Bowl
commercial: CBS Spokesman Doubts Spot
Will Pass Standards Review: " 01/16/2004 10:58 AM

Anti spam

Anti spam 08/06/2004 11:37 AM
I've been using Knowspam.net for about 4 months now, and I like it muchly. I moved to Mozilla Thunderbird for my email today, and was having a problem sending email through Knowspam. A question, a speedy and correct reply (even though the problem was unusual) that fixed it. Excellent. Well ...

Microsoft complies with antitrust deal

Microsoft complies with antitrust deal 04/21/2004 03:41 PM
ZDNet Apr 21 2004 8:24PM GMT

Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law

Two Men Charged Under Va. Anti-Spam Law 12/11/2003 08:32 PM
San Jose Mercury News Dec 11 2003 7:13PM ET

Anti-spam as a service

Anti-spam as a service 12/08/2003 08:09 AM
vnunet.com Dec 8 2003 6:53AM ET

Anti-Spam Regulations

Anti-Spam Regulations 12/17/2003 08:27 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer Dec 17 2003 7:30AM ET

U.S. Charges 4 Under New Anti-Spam Law
(AP)

U.S. Charges 4 Under New Anti-Spam Law
(AP) 04/28/2004 06:57 PM
AP - U.S. authorities charged four people in Detroit on Wednesday with e-mailing fraudulent sales pitches for weight-loss products, the first criminal prosecutions under the government's new "can spam" legislation.

Anti-Spam Centers

Anti-Spam Centers 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Eric passes along this article about ending spam by altering the terms of the Internet, something World of Ends recommends against unless the new agreement is genuinely in the interests of the users. In this case, the group discussing changes to SMTP has been convened by the group that created SMTP 20 years ago....

U.S. Charges 4 Under New Anti-Spam Law

U.S. Charges 4 Under New Anti-Spam Law 04/28/2004 09:30 PM
San Jose Mercury News Apr 29 2004 1:42AM GMT

U.S. charges four under new anti-spam
law

U.S. charges four under new anti-spam
law 04/28/2004 08:10 PM

Congress OKs anti-spam bil

Congress OKs anti-spam bil 12/09/2003 03:47 PM

Anti-Spammers Don't Need CAN-SPAM

Anti-Spammers Don't Need CAN-SPAM 09/25/2004 12:00 AM
While the CAN-SPAM act was meant to stop spam, it obviously hasn't yet. Although it's pretty easy to point out some of CAN-SPAM's flaws, it's perhaps better that some anti-spam activists are actually taking spammers to court -- though mostly citing pre-existing laws regarding false advertising or deception. Armed with these older and easier-to-understand laws, the Informal Coalition of Private Anti-spam Litigants (ICPAL) and the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy (ISIPP) have helped some businesses and devout anti-spammers take some sleazy mass emailers to court and win a few sizable monetary judgments. Still, the strategy for these anti-spammers is to remain informal but organized, so that spammers can't retaliate. However, these anti-spammers also say they're not in it for the money, and some have refused to settle out of court on principle. Given that some of the spammers are hard to actually find, much less extract damages from, it looks like these vigilante organizations may remain small and informal until perhaps some bounties are put out on spammers heads.

UK anti-spam law goes live

UK anti-spam law goes live 12/10/2003 11:34 AM
Analysis Will they work?

Anti-Spam Group Is DOA. Now What?

Anti-Spam Group Is DOA. Now What? 09/24/2004 09:06 AM
The Internet Engineering Task Force group working on a standard to fight spam is now officially dead. So now what? Different players are offering up a slew of different proposals.

Microsoft complies with part of EU
antitrust ruling

Microsoft complies with part of EU
antitrust ruling 03/29/2005 06:49 AM
EurActiv.com Mar 29 2005 10:55AM GMT

Intel Complies with Japan Antitrust
Order

Intel Complies with Japan Antitrust
Order 04/01/2005 09:38 AM
ABCNEWS.com Apr 1 2005 2:18PM GMT
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Billions of 'Phishing' Scam E-Mails Sent
Monthly (Reuters)

Billions of 'Phishing' Scam E-Mails Sent
Monthly (Reuters) 05/06/2004 11:46 AM
Reuters - Fraudulent e-mails designed to dupe Internet users out of their credit card details or bank information topped the three billion mark last month, according to one of the largest spam e-mail filtering companies.

Analysis Of A Phishing Scam

Analysis Of A Phishing Scam 11/14/2003 08:38 PM
Email "phishing" is the popular email scam going around these days, with emails appearing to come from companies you supposedly trust, asking you to provide updated financial information. These scams are pretty sophisticated and are even trickin g relatively savvy users. Now, a security firm has taken some of these phishing emails and done a fairly detailed analysis on them, to determine that a large portion of the emails seem to originate from a single group, and that group appears to be testing out a variety of different scams over time (sometimes including spyware, sometimes just going directly after the victim's bank account). One interesting tactic, which I had not heard about before, is that the URLs they put in the emails (which are usually disguised to look like legitimate URLs - but which are obviously fake if you look carefully) actually redirect users to the actual site for the institution in question, but also throw up a pop-up of their own that asks for your bank account details. I received one of these emails pretending to be from Amazon a few days ago. I didn't click on the link, but did send it off to Amazon who bounced back a form letter. It sounds like these researchers got the form letter treatment as well - but they've done a tremendous amount of research which would probably be very helpful in tracking down who is running this scam.

More Scam Artists Go Phishing (PC World)

More Scam Artists Go Phishing (PC World) 05/31/2004 04:02 AM
PC World - Increase in e-mail, Web site hoaxes prompts calls for change.

IE phishing scam exploit unearthed

IE phishing scam exploit unearthed 12/11/2003 06:15 AM
Master of disguise

Trojan Automates Phishing Scam

Trojan Automates Phishing Scam 08/30/2004 03:59 PM

Phishing scam reports skyrocket in April

Phishing scam reports skyrocket in April 05/18/2004 01:14 PM
Reports of a type of online crime known as "phishing" surged by almost 200 percent in April, according to figures from a computer security industry group.

Yahoo Messenger Invaded by Phishing Scam

Yahoo Messenger Invaded by Phishing Scam 03/26/2005 09:27 PM
Search Engine Journal Mar 27 2005 1:40AM GMT

Gone phishing Trying to stop the latest
internet scam

Gone phishing Trying to stop the latest
internet scam 12/17/2003 05:00 AM
Independent Dec 17 2003 4:12AM ET

New phishing scam: Spoofed campaign site

New phishing scam: Spoofed campaign site 08/03/2004 05:52 PM
WASHINGTON - Phishing fraudsters have found another group of victims to target -- people who want to donate to political campaigns.

Microsoft Seeks to ID Phishing Scam
Authors

Microsoft Seeks to ID Phishing Scam
Authors 03/31/2005 05:36 PM
Washington Post Mar 31 2005 9:39PM GMT

Coding error thwarts Paralympic phishing
scam

Coding error thwarts Paralympic phishing
scam 06/01/2004 08:53 AM
ZDNet UK Jun 1 2004 12:52PM GMT

Report Cites Consumer Education as Key
to Phishing Scam Prevention

Report Cites Consumer Education as Key
to Phishing Scam Prevention 06/02/2004 02:32 AM
FraudWatch International, the Internet’s high profile fraud prevention and education website (www.fraudwatchinternational.com), has today released a report examining the trends of phishing scams, citing education as the key to the reduction of phishing scam victims. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2004]

Harry Potter Author Warns Of Hogwarts
Phishing Scam

Harry Potter Author Warns Of Hogwarts
Phishing Scam 02/05/2005 09:59 PM
TechWeb Feb 6 2005 1:30AM GMT

Phishing Scam Twist: Bogus Sites Built
To Snatch Credit Cards

Phishing Scam Twist: Bogus Sites Built
To Snatch Credit Cards 04/08/2005 10:04 AM
TechWeb Apr 8 2005 2:10PM GMT

Fraudulent e-mails provide fertile
phishing grounds, anti-scam group finds

Fraudulent e-mails provide fertile
phishing grounds, anti-scam group finds 04/20/2004 04:52 PM
InternetRetailer.com Apr 20 2004 9:51PM GMT

Billions and Billions served

Billions and Billions served 03/14/2005 06:11 PM

14.2 billion video streams sent over the Net in 2004, a 79% increase over 2003, according to AccuStream iMedia. (via IT Facts)

That doesn't include the vast amount of P2P video downloads through BitTorrent and similar services. The videonet is coming faster than we think.

Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available. How to
Avoid Bank and Ebay Phishing Scams

Anti-Phishing Toolbar Available. How to
Avoid Bank and Ebay Phishing Scams 12/30/2004 07:54 PM
Tech-Recipes Dec 30 2004 11:09PM GMT

Scam Busters Just As Bad As Scam
Victims?

Scam Busters Just As Bad As Scam
Victims? 01/19/2004 05:05 AM
An odd article out of South Africa complaining that scam busters are just as bad as scam victims - in that they act in just as predictable a manner. Of course, the scam busters aren't the folks losing money to the scammers, and, in fact, they often are doing a good job to spread news of a scam to protect potential victims. So, I'm a bit confused as to what's so upsetting about people taking it upon themselves to tell others about a scam. Certainly, there are some things that don't deserve to be publicized, but are, due to the intensity of the efforts against them. However, scams are something that clearly should be publicized to limit the negative impact. It seems that the real complaint of the writer isn't so much scam busters, but "fad" busters who complain about people getting hooked on the latest fad. However, fads and scams are two very different things.

Scam Within A Scam Warning

Scam Within A Scam Warning 12/22/2003 07:43 PM
There have been a ton of warnings about so-called "phishing" spam scams - where a very realistic email from a well-known financial firm asks you to confirm the details of your account. Of course, the email isn't real and the scammers just want your account details. They go through all sorts of tricks to hide the fact that the email isn't real, but the latest such phishing scam uses a bit of social engineering. It warns people about such scams, and then says they need to fill out new information to avoid being taken by such a scam. It seems the scammers are trying to get increasingly clever, and it's an interesting social engineering trick to try to get people to let down their guard by first warning them about a scam - and then scamming them anyway.

Spending those billions

Spending those billions 05/06/2004 12:17 AM
USA Today May 6 2004 4:19AM GMT

Reach Out To Billions

Reach Out To Billions 08/30/2004 02:58 AM
WebDevInfo Aug 30 2004 5:26AM GMT

What will Google do with its IPO
billions?

What will Google do with its IPO
billions? 05/06/2004 11:40 AM
Search Engine Lowdown May 6 2004 4:13PM GMT

~WikiSpam by the billions

~WikiSpam by the billions 05/12/2004 10:00 AM
For the past week, someone has been hitting jspwiki.org, adding advertisements to a couple of addresses I am not going to mention here. I figured they were isolated incidents, but... It seems that Dave Johnson of RollerWeblogger has had the same guys on his wiki. I just hope nobody is trying to build a bot to target a specific WikiEngine?. It could be devastating to the open nature of Wikis.

You see, the problem with open systems is that they are easy to abuse. For the most part, manual damage can be controlled thanks to social pressure and sheer volume of good people, but automatical damage, as inflicted by bots may become intolerable. The reason why we have so much email spam these days is because of the wonderful openness of the SMTP, mail transfer protocol. Because it was open, license-free, and easy to implement, it became the killer app of the all-pervasive Internet these days. But openness also has vulnerabilities, and as with anything popular, people are abusing it right now.

I am not worried about people trying to destroy wikis. That would be too easy to protect against. But I am worried about bots that would roam around, and change the text or a link slightly to destroy links to competition, or to add Googlejuice for someone. Would it be possible to notice every single change on your wiki, and check every single outgoing link? Considering that most Wikis don't even provide an RSS or Atom feed it may be difficult to keep track on what is really happening. I have two open Wikis which I administer - and I'm having trouble coping with them already. Especially smaller wikis may be in trouble, as their administration have no tools to combat a dedicated spambot.

It is entirely possible that public Wikis will have to start to protect themselves somehow. I think we should start thinking about technologies that would prevent spambots from destroying an entire subculture, but in a WikiFriendly way. Let's not do what everybody else seems to be doing these days, and sacrifice the one thing that we want to protect.

"The UN's Vanishing billions"

"The UN's Vanishing billions" 05/20/2004 11:30 AM

Hackers cost UK.biz billions

Hackers cost UK.biz billions 04/28/2004 05:58 AM
Infosecurity Europe 2004 Misplaced confidence

Microsoft to share its billions

Microsoft to share its billions 07/20/2004 10:59 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Jul 21 2004 3:08AM GMT

Billions of Cicadas Set to Mate (AP)

Billions of Cicadas Set to Mate (AP) 05/15/2004 03:48 PM
AP - Billions of cicadas are crawling their way above ground for their rare mating opportunity. Scientists say this year's batch of the red-eyed insects, known as Brood X, is the largest of the cicada groups that appear at various intervals.

Billions of cicadas set to mate

Billions of cicadas set to mate 05/15/2004 05:20 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 15 2004 9:08PM GMT

Billions Served: Get Your Share

Billions Served: Get Your Share 09/15/2004 09:53 AM
McDonald's raises its dividend yet again.

SBC to spend billions on network

SBC to spend billions on network 06/22/2004 07:12 PM
San Jose Mercury News Jun 22 2004 11:08PM GMT

RightNow Complies With AOL Anti-Spam Standards (NewsFactor)

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